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He let her hand drop from his firm clutch.

"So sweetheart, what have you got planned for challenge number one? Greed? Gluttony?" he purposefully takes a step forward, closing the gap she had put between them, his face inches from hers. "I personally think we should start with lust," he groaned huskily his eyes filled with hunger which only caused her to scowl and push him back with a firm hand on his chest.

"Your right, we should start with lust. To concur lust you must practice abstinence. Starting from now, never get into my personal space ever again, got it?" Klaus scowled in response and she rolled her eyes going to sit down on his antique lounge. He followed her, sitting across from her in one of the creamy high back lounge chairs and reacquainting himself with the scotch he had discarded to answer the door.

"See originally I was just going to make a list of everything that was wrong with you but then I realised I'd run out of paper before I was finished." Klaus glared at her, his pupils dilating menacingly large. She caught his glance and smirked not even flinching at a look he had honed over the centuries and he'd seen have a somewhat medusa effect on people. "Don't try to intimidate me Klaus,"

"Well don't insult me then love," he snarled taking a long sip from his scotch. "I've ripped people apart for much less,"

"Yeah well and another thing that temper of yours has got to go," she noted scribbling something down on the piece of paper in her hands.

"I don't have a temper Caroline, I just detest being betrayed and also believe that violent demonstration with the added repetition is the best way of learning,"

"Same thing," she snapped defiantly sitting up straighter in her seat daring him to challenge her. When he didn't she continued, "It doesn't matter anyway, you're nowhere close to being able to deal with your wrath yet." He didn't object, he knew it to be true. "I was thinking more along the lines of Gluttony."

"I see, and what would you propose we do about that, sweetheart?" she paused looking down at her list and then back up at him, meeting his eye. Sparkling sapphire rivalling his brooding green in intensity and power. And then she smiled. What seemed to Klaus to be the genuine article. A small grin with a simple dimple showing an inch away from the tip of her rosy lips. His unbeating heart gave a flutter.

"We're going hunting"

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The forest area surrounding Mystic falls was dense and filled with prey. Rabbits, deer, squirrels and wolves ran freely in the woods just waiting to fall prey to the born hunters of the night. Though Klaus was not impressed.

"No offense love, but I thought you meant real hunting," he commented jadedly sticking his hands casually in his pockets and following close behind Caroline. Too close in her opinion.

"What do you mean this is real hunting! Just without the shotguns or arrows." She whispered back already semi crouched and searching the forest floor for prey. It would be a lie to say she wasn't starving, she felt like she hadn't eaten in days which wouldn't be a large overstatement. So many things had been happening that she had simply just forgotten to eat. Though her stomach wasn't letting her forget any more. She needed to feed or else she'd do something that she knows she'd regret.

"No love, real hunting is stalking prey and then torturing them until they beg for death. It's like a beautiful art form really, I will teach you about it some time," he offered knowing full well what she would reply but just wanting to stir her up anyway.

"I don't feed of people Klaus," she replied bluntly crouching besides a tree after spying a snow white bunny nibbling at some flower on the forest floor.

"I know, though I can't for the life of me figure out why"

"Because I still want to hold onto my humanity, alright!" she snapped huskily trying to convey her aggravation but not scare off her meal.

"But why?"

"Why so many questions?!"

"Calm down there sweetheart, I'm just interested that's all," he chuckled raising his hands in a pacifist gesture. He made calming woe sounds which she didn't appreciate. I'm not a horse.

"If I tell you will you shut up?!" she cried exasperatedly, standing up to her full height which was still almost a head below his.

He shrugged his shoulders in response.

"Take your average woman. I can't even for a second look at her as my next meal. Because when I see her I can't help but see a mother, a daughter, a girlfriend, a sister, a wife. I see a woman that could have just come from a dress fitting and was going to get married in a fortnight. I see a happy woman who does not deserve to know a creature as frightening and dreadful as me exists. And most of all I see someone who would be missed. Who am I to take away this person from her friends and family? I have no right," Caroline panted, frowning at her own declaration and how almost pitiful it sounded.

"Let's just get back to hunting okay," she turned away from his imposing gaze. The look in his eyes almost reflected wonder. She had never had anyone look at her the way he did. She knew he was in love with her, or as close to love as a beast like him could get but he looked as if she was the most breathtaking thing he'd ever seen. It made her extremely uncomfortable to say the least.

She zipped away from beside him and snatched the rabbit up before it had a chance to blink; holding it tightly in her arms she returned to Klaus whose eyes had regained their usually mischievous glint.

"What do you see when you look at that rabbit then?" He asked nodding to the ball of what fluff in her arms that was trembling in fright. She instinctively held it tighter to her body in an attempt to protect even it from the thousand year old hybrids scrutiny.

"I see dinner," she replied calmly not knowing what he was trying to get out.

"Want to know what I see Sweetheart?"

"Not really," she protested flatly though he continued anyway.

"I see a rabbit who has just finished moving into a new burrow. I see a Mrs. Rabbit and maybe some little rabbit children bouncing around out there somewhere too. I see sister rabbit coming to visit every other weekend with her children and most of all I see a rabbit that would be missed," he concluded watching with smug satisfaction as her previously bared fangs had returned to their normal size and the veins under her eyes had disappeared under the surface of her smooth silky skin.

"What's your point?" she hissed, trying her best to ignore the angry growling in her stomach.

"My point is: what's the difference?"

"They're animals!" she cried feeling the hunger turn her more licentious with every passing second.

"So Sweetheart, you're telling me that because they're animals they're less deserving of your mercy? That they don't deserve to be happy, and grow old with their loved ones because they're not human?" She opened her mouth to reply with something charming and witty but no words came to mind. She could see the double meaning behind his words. He wasn't talking about a rabbits anymore. He was talking about a different kind of animal all together.

"But I can't think about that or I'd starve," she replied softly feeling like the prey that has been backed into a corner by the world's most devious predator.

"Exactly. Whether it be humans or animals they're all the same. You just can't think about it. Stop thinking love, and hunt with me."

"I can't." She took a step away from him still clutching the bunny in her arms.

"Why not? You don't have to kill them you can just feed on them and then erase it from their memory,"

"I can't control myself!" She screeched nearly at the end of her tether. I'm so hungry . . . "I don't know whether I can stop. And I couldn't live with the death of some innocent on my conscious,"

Klaus didn't say anything for a moment, he just stood as his blonde love turned quiet, her usually bright and peppy aura surrounded by a feeling of gloom. He felt a pang at doing this to her and wanted to make amends.

"Feed from me," he whispered moving in on her.

"W-what!" she stuttered stumbling back, suddenly feeling extremely over emotional after reminiscing about her first kill and how broken she felt after it.

"You can't kill me love, do it. I can tell you're starving," Klaus bit into his wrist and offered it to her. She looked from the open blood vessel to his face and then back, her hunger begging to be quenched.

"I'm sorry," she whispered a tear trickling down her cheek as she looked into his eyes. Klaus wore a quizzical look until he heard the sound of little bones snapping. He watched her sink her fangs into the rabbits neck, her face partially disappearing behind the white fur.

He waited patiently until the rabbit carcass was lying on the forest floor before speaking.

"I'm so-"

"I have to go," she quickly interrupted walking away from him.

"Caroline wait!" he called after her but she had already begun to run. He knew he could catch up to her with ease but he also knew it would be better just to leave it for today and try again tomorrow. She looked like she wanted to be left alone so he would let her have that privacy.

Till tomorrow . . .

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Next time: Gluttony Part 2

"What are those? Are they blood bags?!"

"You help me control my blood lust I'll help you control yours"

"We'll do it together"

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So did we like it?

I'd just like to point out a few things here. First of which, that little bit at the start. That was not LUST, LUST will be one of the last vices Klaus has to concur and I've already got that chapter completely planned out. I have a feeling epicenes ensues!

Okay this is only part 1 of GLUTTONY But I'm hoping to have three separate chapters for (G) just because I know my chapters are really short.

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